It’s Columbus Day. Whoopee.
Anyone who follows this blog or even stops in occasionally could probably guess that I’m not a real big fan of Christopher Columbus or his “discovery” of an already-inhabited part of the world. I’m one of those who look into history and are grimly unsurprised that a European invader thought it was okay to kill and enslave the friendly folks who came down to the beach to welcome him ashore. Yeah, that’s more the way I look at it. The Great Columbian Exchange mostly helped Europe,…